Things To Do In London Today: 24 October 2012

NIGELLA: Domestic goddess (she's not really a goddess, she's a human being) Nigella Lawson is signing her latest cookery book at Waterstones in Canary Wharf. You can probably just turn up, but phone ahead to be sure. Free, 12.30pm

EYE EYE: A talk at the Museum of London, ran by Gresham College, looks at the prospects for sorting out people's vision as age takes its toll. Free, just turn up, 6pm

PADDINGTON EXTINCT BEAR: Join the Crossrail archaeology team in the dig's visitor centre behind Centre Point for a talk on the ancient animal remains and railway relics discovered under the Paddington site. Free, just turn up, 6.30pm

OCCULT AND ART: Ever heard the one about Austin Osman Spare? The outsider artist and sometime occultist was one of London's most intriguing characters and is the subject of a talk tonight by the Sohemian Society, upstairs at the Wheatsheaf, Fitzrovia. £3, 7pm

GEEKY COMEDY: Bright Club returns to the Bloomsbury Theatre. The idea is to stick a few UCL academics on stage to talk through their research. Hilarity ensues. Trust us, it does — helped in no small part by a sprinkling of stand-up comedians, led this time by Andrew O'Neill. £8, tickets probably available on the night, 7.30pm

Random London Fact of the Day

Who'd win in a race between a cheetah and a greyhound? What about if you put hurdles in the way? Such questions were answered in the 1930s at Harringay and Romford tracks, where the African cats were raced in front of a paying public. More over on Harringay Online.

Weather

We've hacked into the Almighty's computer and seen His meteorology algorithm (He still programmes in BASIC, for unknowable reasons).

Secretly Hidden False Rumour Of The DayOn 8 February 1933 it quite literally rained cats and dogs, after an intake pipe for the newly built Battersea Power Station was incorrectly plumbed into the nearby animal sanctuary.